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Originally Posted by ImmortalSlasher

I can't wait to see how Ridley Scott integrates Blade Runner with the Alien world.

I think it's just extended viral marketing to keep the interest in the franchise going, now that they have announced two more sequels to Prometheus.

Originally Posted by MichaelMyers

I do have a quibble, and a query.

First, I do not believe David is a plausible AI. I do not see how he can have some human traits (the ability to manipulate, for example) and not others (want/desire). I felt that his capacity for agency was fitted too much to the demands of the plot. The same might be said, to give an obvious example, of HAL, but HAL was limited in a way David was not.

The earlier viral marketing clip of David explains this aspect. He shares a lot of common traits with normal humans, even emotions. Yes, he even emotes. The viral clip had him weeping at one point.

That's why Weyland proudly presents David to the Engineer in that climactic scene, proclaiming himself as a God as well - "we are both creators, we are both gods".

Originally Posted by MichaelMyers

Second, at the risk of asking a dumb question: why did the sole surviving alien want to kill the humans? Perhaps I'm missing something here. But I thought the aliens had changed their minds about destroying Earth, so why kill the crew?

The Engineers had wanted to destroy the humans for awhile. That's the reason why the craft's pre-destined co-ordinates were set for Earth, and that's why the Engineer cranked up the engines for the craft - to fly to Earth and extinguish mankind.

Why? Ridley Scott has hinted to that in many of his interviews, and it concerns our treatment of Jesus, whom Scott refers to as an Engineer.

But I do feel like, embedded in this movie are the fundamental ideas behind why it is the Engineers would want to wipe us out. If that's the question that you're asking. The movie asks the question, were we created by these beings? And it answers that question very definitively. But in the wake of that answer there's a new question, which is, they created us but now they want to destroy us, why did they change their minds? That's the question that Shaw is asking at the end of this movie, the one that she wants answered. I do think that there are a lot of hints in this movie that we give you quite and educated guess as to why. But obviously not to the detriment of what Shaw might find when she goes to talk to these things herself.

Ridley Scott: We definitely did, and then we thought it was a little too on the nose. But if you look at it as an "our children are misbehaving down there" scenario, there are moments where it looks like we've gone out of control, running around with armor and skirts, which of course would be the Roman Empire. And they were given a long run. A thousand years before their disintegration actually started to happen. And you can say, "Lets' send down one more of our emissaries to see if he can stop it. Guess what? They crucified him."

Read this - http://io9.com/5917448/all-of-your-l...tions-answered

Prometheus 2 might be able to answer that a bit more clearly, because that's the precise reason why Shaw flew to the Engineer's home planet, which David described as "Paradise".

Now that you have seen the film, MichaelMyers, this is for you :-

http://www.totalfilm.com/features/11...led-prometheus

Originally Posted by Ferox13

I never noticed this at the time (I saw this posted elsewhere) but what the Engineer consumes at the start looks very different from the goo in the chamber:

Yes, it's different. Because it's a weapon of mass creation.

Originally Posted by Ferox13

Also the bottom of the Mural shows waht looks like a facehugger:

Sort of reminds you of the climactic battle, doesn't it? It either depicts the creation of the ultimate killing machine, or it is a depiction of possibly (several) such scenes similar to the climactic battle on the planets on which the Engineers have created life.